Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to Himself - College of Stoic Philosophers

64 MARCUS ANTONINUS BOOK
24 Think of the sum of being, and in what a
morsel of it you partake ; the sum of time, com-
pared with the brief atom assigned to you ; of
destiny, and the jot you
are of it !
25 Does another wrong me ? See he to that his
disposition, his actions are his own. For me, I
have at this present just that which universal
nature wills me to have, and am doing just that
which my own nature wills me to do.
26 Whether the physical currents run smooth or
rough, let them not sway the governing and
sovereign
self within. It must not confound itself
with them, but remain self-determinant, and circum-
scribe all such affections within the parts affected.
When these assimilate themselves to the under-
standing by that sympathy of parts
which exists
in an organic unity, we must not attempt to resist
the physical sensation ; but on the other hand
the Inner Self must not go on to assume on
its own authority that the affection is either good
or bad.
27 Live with the gods. And he lives with the
gods, who ever presents to them his soul acceptant
of their dispensations, and busy about the will of
god, even that particle of Zeus, which Zeus gives